Economist and writer
Tomas Sedlacek is an economist and writer who has shaken the study of economics as few ever have. He has been named one of the "Young Guns" and one of the "five hot minds in economics" by the Yale Economic Review.
An advisor to banks, ministers and presidents, such as Vaclav Havel, to whom he was economic advisor, Sedlacek serves as the Chief Macroeconomic Strategist in the leading Czech bank CSOB and sits on the National Economic Council of the Czech government. A member of the Yale University World Fellowship, where he served as a fellow and lectured, Sedlacek is the co-author of various case studies for Harvard and Georgetown, and a lecturer at Charles University, Prague.
In his best-seller book,The Economics of Good and Evil, reviewed by the Financial Times as “a compulsive read” and a “must-read” by the Washington Post for 2011, Sedlacek shows how economics is woven out of history, myth, religion and ethics. His provocative writing argues a simple, almost heretical proposition: economics is ultimately about good and evil. In is foreword to the book, Vaclav Havel remarks that “the author’s questioning breaks down stereotypes.. economics becomes a path to adventure. ” The best-selling book has also been turned into a road-show theater piece performed by The Czech National Theatre in Prague and abroad.